My dogs tend to eat grass the most in the spring time when the new "baby" grass is popping up. So fresh!

We have to remember that dogs are opportunistic carnivores.....yes, they thrive on meat....but they will also eat other things if its there. I think our dogs just like to eat grass when its popping up in the spring because it tastes good. No other reason. :smile:

ETA: I don't think it really adds anything beneficial to their diet....it usually comes out the same way it goes in...

 

My dogs tend to eat grass the most in the spring time when the new "baby" grass is popping up. So fresh!

Hehe!!

Excellent points and observations! Thank you for that imput.

 

Opportunist scavengers, dog will eat practically anything that seems edible but a carnivorous diet is the most ideal for health. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

My dogs will eat grass, in fact they graze like cows, but that is because they are food obsessed and it is edible! Not everything they eat is nutrient related, some if it is the plain fact that if they CAN eat it, they WILL!

 

My Boy is a chow hound and he will eat anything. He eats grass, garbage,and he really loves the apples that fall off the tree or hang low enough for him to snag. They eat it because its edible and it appeals to them. Same reason we eat stuff that has little to no nutritional value to us. That's what I tell them.

 

Chocolate does not have a lot of nutritional value to me, but you can pry my chocolate out of my cold dead hands! :biggrin:

 

I had a foster dog (Beagle) who in addition to eating grass, tried to eat ROCKS. And trees. And wood shavings.

I don't think rocks have nutritional value, he just thought they tasted good!

 

I've come to start answering that question thusly: "Perhaps it's the same reason that some dogs eat poop."

That usually ends that portion of the debate.

 

Cause it's tasty, end of story.

 

You don't determine what an animal is by what he eats, you determine it by what his body is designed to digest.